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Red Hat LVM ADMINISTRATOR FOR RHEL 4.5 Administrator's Manual (112 pages)
LVM Administrator's Guide for RHEL 4.5
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
5
Introduction
9
Audience
9
Software Versions
9
Related Documentation
9
Document Conventions
10
Feedback
11
The LVM Logical Volume Manager
13
New and Changed Features
13
Logical Volumes
13
LVM Architecture Overview
14
Running LVM in a Cluster
15
Document Overview
17
LVM Components
19
Physical Volumes
19
LVM Physical Volume Layout
19
Multiple Partitions on a Disk
20
Volume Groups
21
LVM Logical Volumes
21
Linear Volumes
21
Striped Logical Volumes
24
Mirrored Logical Volumes
25
Snapshot Volumes
26
LVM Administration Overview
29
Creating LVM Volumes in a Cluster
29
Logical Volume Creation Overview
29
Growing a File System on a Logical Volume
30
Logical Volume Backup
30
Logging
31
LVM Administration with CLI Commands
33
Using CLI Commands
33
Physical Volume Administration
35
Creating Physical Volumes
35
Displaying Physical Volumes
36
Preventing Allocation on a Physical Volume
37
Resizing a Physical Volume
37
Removing Physical Volumes
38
Volume Group Administration
38
Creating Volume Groups
38
Adding Physical Volumes to a Volume Group
39
Displaying Volume Groups
39
Scanning Disks for Volume Groups to Build the Cache File
40
Removing Physical Volumes from a Volume Group
41
Changing the Parameters of a Volume Group
41
Activating and Deactivating Volume Groups
42
Removing Volume Groups
42
Splitting a Volume Group
42
Combining Volume Groups
43
Backing up Volume Group Metadata
43
Renaming a Volume Group
43
Moving a Volume Group to Another System
44
Recreating a Volume Group Directory
45
Logical Volume Administration
45
Creating Logical Volumes
45
Persistent Device Numbers
50
Resizing Logical Volumes
50
Changing the Parameters of a Logical Volume Group
50
Renaming Logical Volumes
51
Removing Logical Volumes
51
Displaying Logical Volumes
51
Growing Logical Volumes
52
Extending a Striped Volume
53
Shrinking Logical Volumes
55
Creating Snapshot Volumes
55
Controlling LVM Device Scans with Filters
56
Online Data Relocation
57
Activating Logical Volumes on Individual Nodes in a Cluster
58
Customized Reporting for LVM
59
Format Control
59
Object Selection
61
Sorting LVM Reports
68
Specifying Units
69
LVM Configuration Examples
71
Creating an LVM Logical Volume on Three Disks
71
Creating the Physical Volumes
71
Creating the Volume Group
71
Creating the Logical Volume
71
Creating the File System
72
Creating a Striped Logical Volume
72
Creating the Physical Volumes
72
Creating the Volume Group
73
Creating the Logical Volume
73
Creating the File System
73
Splitting a Volume Group
74
Determining Free Space
74
Moving the Data
75
Splitting the Volume Group
75
Creating the New Logical Volume
76
Making a File System and Mounting the New Logical Volume
76
Activating and Mounting the Original Logical Volume
76
Removing a Disk from a Logical Volume
76
Moving Extents to Existing Physical Volumes
77
Moving Extents to a New Disk
78
LVM Troubleshooting
81
Troubleshooting Diagnostics
81
Displaying Information on Failed Devices
81
Recovering from LVM Mirror Failure
83
Recovering Physical Volume Metadata
86
Replacing a Missing Physical Volume
88
Removing Lost Physical Volumes from a Volume Group
88
Insufficient Free Extents for a Logical Volume
88
LVM Administration with the LVM GUI
91
The Device Mapper
93
The LVM Configuration Files
95
Sample Lvm.conf File
95
LVM Object Tags
103
Adding and Removing Object Tags
103
Host Tags
103
Controlling Activation with Tags
104
LVM Volume Group Metadata
105
The Physical Volume Label
105
Metadata Contents
106
Sample Metadata
106
Index
109
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